Internet retail sales were up 15% during the Christmas season this year, compared with 2009, according to MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse, a company that measures retail sales by all payment forms.
I always figured electronics were the area to focus for online sales for affiliates, but online apparel sales grew the fastest (26 percent), while electronics were up 12 percent. However, the report did not indicate the volume for either.
A big indicator this year for positive sales numbers was that daily online sales exceeded $1 billion on six different days, and that happened just three days last year.
And big news for Amazon, as they are expected to sell more than 8 million Kindles this year, which is 60 percent or more than analysts predicted.
That makes me which I had created a Kindle affiliate site or three.
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I didn’t say this was going to save the world economy – it’s simply a positive indicator.
In other news… the sky is falling.
Even if a few people are buying it can’t make up for the dramatic loss of a worldwide recession. Very few countries such as our Canadian neighbors are actually growing but compare this to how we should be and we lag far behind
Where did you get this data?
The big picture is it was not a good holiday season over all for retail. After inflation is accounted sales are up only 1.8% from last year. Considering how bad last year was it should of been much better. Secondly which sales migrated vs being new sales. That is important. I assume selling online should cost less than in stores so it should help the bottom line. But would be nice to see what migrated and what was new.
I haven’t come across any numbers on the Nook.
Great articles, one question how much do you think the device Nook Made for just this holiday alone
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